This month we've been celebrating Matariki!
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What a busy month this has been, marking a memorable year with our first Matariki public holiday alo...
Over the last couple of months, we have been busy exploring our gardens, planting vegetables, herbs...
As you all know, in preschool Toru, we have been exploring children's culture, identity and language...
Samoan language week was perfect to grow our tamariki in their area of communication and relational...
Learning through play is essential and beneficial for our tamaraki's growth and learning abilities.
Autumn has sparked curiosity in our Tamariki as we colour in the fallen leaves.
Here at Best Start we encourage our children to be curious and to explore the world around them.
This morning we set the playroom up for our tāmāriki, who love working with the sand.
At our centre, we had a great afternoon celebrating Matariki with a puppet show followed by soup, bu...
Tamariki have been learning all about the star cluster, making their own displays and working togeth...
Together as a centre whānau, we spent this time celebrating in special ways.
Our Tamariki has been involved in many different experiences, exploring different mediums such as p...
We are really good at recycling for our learning room, using boxes, jars, tins and lots of other coo...
The playground construction has finished, and ngā tamariki are enjoying the extra space it has creat...
The parachute always gets the infants and toddlers excited at BestStart Pacey Ave.
Ensuring our Tamariki are well prepared and ready for school is important to us here at BestStart Ta...
In our Kea Forest and Kiwi Cove rooms, our children’s learning is encouraged through play. Our fun-f...
The start of the Māori New Year was heralded by the rise of the star cluster known in Māori as Matar...
In preparation for this celebration, tamariki and kaiako created displays of stars, a korowai, lante...
We have been enjoying learning about the weather over the months of May and June. 'What's the weath...
It's been a busy month!
This year Beststart Bay Kindy put of a Matariki event for whanau. Eveyone was invited and the night...
We at BestStart Dixon Heights wish everyone a Happy Matariki/Maori New Year. What an eventful...
Here at BestStart Paraparaumu, we have been learning all about the importance and significance of Ma...
Here at Best Start Abacus, we enjoy targeting our learning uniquely for each age group. We have rece...
Matariki brings the old lunar year to a close and marks the beginning of a new year with the rising...
The tamariki enjoyed exploring the ice by tapping it, cracking it, dropping it, stomping on it, and...
BestStart Parton is honoured to have celebrated the Māori new year with some of our beautiful famili...
We've been learning about Matariki
Matariki at Buchanans Road is always a special time.
This year 2022, Best Start Manukau, celebrated Matariki full of spirit/matakuikui with the support/t...
For our Matariki celebration, we provide some yummy soup dinner for our whānau to take home, which o...
This month, our oldest tamariki, the Matakauri Class, have really been enjoying reading and retellin...
At Beststart Kilmarnock, we value biculturalism and respect Te Tiriti O Waitangi. Matariki celebrati...
We were so excited to be able to celebrate our annual Matariki Celebrations with our whanau.
At Beststart Kenderdine in the month of June our tamariki embraced in learning and exploring the dif...
This year Matariki is being celebrated as a public holiday for the first time in Aotearoa, New Zeala...
As part of our Matariki celebrations, the children brought vegetables in from home to prepare and ma...
Matariki, the Māori New Year, is rich with tradition. At Best start Johnstone Road kindy tamariki ha...
It has been a long time since we have had the opportunity to gather our families together and celebr...
Here at BestStart Papatoetoe, we show Whakawhanaungatanga through celebrations and events where we c...
The tamariki in the manuka room love exploring and discovering different textures
We have been celebrating Matariki here at BestStart Mahora.
Matariki provides an opportunity for tamariki to explore the values of diversity, community, parti...
A huge welcome, and thanks for coming. We are excited to host our first whānau event since last Mata...
our focus has been on creativity, including drawing, painting and messy play, ngā tamariki love gett...
This year the children were super excited to help peel the vegetables of our hangi. The stories, the...
We welcomed our families back to our centre to celebrate the Maori new year. We loved seeing all ou...
Matariki is celebrated with education, remembrance and the planting of new trees and crops, signalli...
We have recently been looking for ways to incorporate carpentry into our infant’s curriculum.
The Kea room at BestStart Hei Hei's new group programme planning is about music and movement, where...
This June, we celebrated Samoan Language Week.
Wacky hair day at BestStart Parklands was a huge success
It was a very special day for our centre as we had opened up our time capsule from 10 years ago.
Ngā tamariki learnt how to make kawakawa balm, a Maori medicine
We initiated many activities with our tamariki to help them to understand the meaning of the celebra...
Our toddler room playground was under renovations and our older tamariki got the opportunity to lear...
We have some fantastic inside climbing equipment which provides a challenge and a way for our tamari...
At Beststart Rongotai we have a strong focus on our building our social emotional skills.
A gentle hug, a smile of acknowledgement, a moment of acceptance, a funny belly laugh or a hand held...
We celebrated yoga day with our tamariki on 21st June, as this day is celebrated as Yoga day through...
What a joyous month it was for the Murphy’s Park whanau as our team joined hands to host double cele...
This week in the Pepe Room we have done some artwork to celebrate Matariki
May has flown by in a flash, we look back on dryer days with longer hours of daylight. ...
Here at BestStart Oamaru Kindy we have been celebrating Samoan language week through a range of exp...
The team at BestStart Greenmeadows (Napier) are on a journey to deepen our understanding of our cent...
To celebrate Samoan Language week, we have been doing traditional Samoan dancing, song, pictures an...
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